The issue in this conversation is waste products. When it comes to the production and use of solar power it maybe inefficient but if every house in every city had thier roof (which is wasted space in many places) covered with solar power the issue of space wouldnt be as difficult. Couple that with a large stash of batteries (yes polution from them too) and it would be ok with excess energy going back to the grid for others to use.
Hydro power doesnt always mean river ecosystems there are successful hydro generators using tidal currents although not as efficient at this stage.
Wind generators are not pretty.. but they work. and bird issues are not as bad as people like to claim. Reports from the wind fields in germany have said the problem was only an initial issue while the birds learnt about them.
At this stage in our evolution it comes down to us reducing our energy usage. Recycling, increasing the trees in the world rather than chopping them down. Recycle Reduce Reuse.
Sun doesnt need to have its kernel recompiled all the time because it doesnt have as diverse a hardware support as linux does. YES linux could be built with support for just about anything and everything but then it would be called lin-bloatware. Solaris in my experience has performed better than linux for longer periods of time under higher load. I have seen this time and time again (in 2.2 and 2.4 kernel series). We are still running 8 Solaris servers on intel hardware and 8 linux 2.6 based systems on the same hardware. BOTH are configured identically as far as apache and used services are concerned. Generall the Solaris 9 systems are more reliable (even on x86) than the same linux boxes on 2.4. Yet to be determined for 2.6 although 2.6 does appear to outperform the solaris system at this stage (uptime yet to be determined).
So realistically solaris is still king between linux and solaris. However FreeBSD is still more of a realistic competitor to solaris.. Where is the press on that?
But in the end any *nix flavor is better than none. Long live solaris and linux both have thier benefits and both have drawbacks. Realistically there is NO PERFECT OS!!. (and as long as humans make OS's there never will be).
Realistically the issue here is waste management. BUT its not really. Why cant we start to invest in more renewable resource based energy like solar, wind, hydro, the list goes on. That way we dont have to come up with solutions to dispose of deadly nuclear / atomic waste. I know that sounds tree huggish but at the same time its the reality of it. We are causing so many other environmental issues because we rely too heavily on fossil/nuclear power.
To really lure people away from office Staroffice/OpenOffice really needs to have a better office document standard support. I have been having issues with trying to open excell spreadsheets that are password protected. I then have to ask the person to mail me them with the password removed. Thats the penalty for using FreeBSD/Linux and OpenSource office packages. However Im in love with them after using it and cant go back to windows and office.
Its the small bugs that make a big difference to the end user. Especially when opposite products own such a large market share.
Its rather amusing to think about it. In the past when alot of people where poorer and the quality of life was lower we would DIY everything from our house to our garden, car and bicycle. Now we are lazy we sit in side and DIY only our computers in some cases. Lets hope that this can be a further trend to people doing things for themselves and innovation will surely be the real benefit from this. Not only will innovation be the key but also self satisfaction and a feeling of acomplishment that so many people lack in todays society.
In the past the access to information on how to go about doing this was much more difficult and not all libaries or regeons had that information availible. Since the birth of the internet and it becoming amazingly popular the information has become much more accessible. That is also one the major reasons why there has been a fairly large explosion in the amount of "hackers" out there doing cool things with hardware/software and thier self esteem.
Yeah creates jobs in india.. how many other quality programmers / developers have been laid off in favor of quantity over quality in india or other developing countries.
This whole saga comes down to SCO being a pawn in a much bigger game played by the big boys. Realistically everyone looses in many cases like this. Because it comes down to a trust issue.
HELLO!! the internet isnt all american. a bounty will work in the US. But will it with in the czech republic. What about spammers in thailand, china and anywhere else. These bounties wont work as a solution long term.
The best standards are ones that are "standard" this means that they are interoperable. There is no point in calling it a standard unless it really is Standard.
However at the same time having open standards can also have a bad side. Being open means that joe cracker could in his many lonely nights without a girlfriend sit down and work out holes in the picture and possibly exploit them. Then the standard would have to change.. This is an example of the DVD standards...
Taking that standart to a programatic level often has issues with incompatibility as well. With certain providers always making thier own Tweaks to standards (in example ipsec).
SPAM is bulk email that you never subscribed to (in its most simple terms). THERE ARE LEGIT mass emails that are not spam. For example security alerts, Product updates from large commercial companies like sony etc. If you subscribe 2years ago and dont want the emails unsubscribe rather than mark it as spam.
People by nature are lazy and dont care about others in this day and age. And this is just another exampl e of this exact issue.
The real benefits of opensource is a fast product delivery cycle if the people are motivated. That doesnt always mean that the security is a high priority. BUT there are open source projects that have security as a major concernt.
djbdns/qmail/the list goes on and on where the coders have a real insight into security and good code. In general the larger the project the more easily it is to overlook a security issue. Its always going to be that way and often its not intentional. Imagine having to remember 500,000 lines of code for all possible issues. Plus if you do audit your code there isnt always a garrnetee that your eyes will pick it up.
Flexibility and fast release times make opensource a very viable option. And most exploits are not remotely exploitable to servers (unlike many of Microsofts issues as one example)...
I use opensource for the majority of my personal work but I still believe that windows/microsoft is benefitcial to the industry as a whole. The exchange/sql/windows/iis solution is pretty robust and works very well if its configured well in a corporate environment. Put that onto the internet and its a different story.
In the end no single solution will work unless the vast majority of servers implement and maintain the solution. There is no use if only AOL or MSN implement a solution for spam. they "may" be 40million users or so but i know personally I dont email anyone @aol.com or @hotmail.com because im a geek and I have geek friends with thier own servers. There needs to be a mass adoption of a good standard to make any difference to the spam problem.
Over time there has been a serious increase in the amount of liability an ISP can take for thier user base. This works both ways unfortunatly being an ISP is alreaddy a full time job for most companies with thier support staff over worked and thier system administrators working overtime to fullfill often unreasonable expectations of themselves.
So adding additional work to ISPs will / could often be the straw that broke the camels back. But at the same time I believe the best way to get ISPs working FOR everyone else. Is if they are being the source of an abnormally high percentage of spam then thier IPS or something need to be threatened. In a world where the most part of IPv4 space is taken this would be more than catastrophic. and having IP space isnt a right its a priviliedge.
But having said that its very very difficult for ISPs to fully lock down thier services. We implemented a system where outbound port 25 was blocked to all clients. And our internal SMTP servers where rate limited on a per IP basis for clients. this killed spam for the most part. Then customers would find open proxies etc so the problem then went up again. Its hard to really combat and its a full time job in itself fighting spam from users of your own ISP. Thats even with disconnecting customers etc for spamming. (they often just sign up with a different false name and pay cash or similar).
Its good in theory difficult and costly in practise.
Novel is in a great place now not to break microsofts monopoly or to become number one but to give the industry a reliable set of software products that run on more than one operating system. The days of Windows only or Mac only are numbered if all goes well. And that gives consumers a much great er choice in the end and even if they choose to always go with one vendor or not it doesnt matter the choices are there. If the choices are there peple will choose.. and the world will keep spinning and thats what makes the world a great place.. options.. and flexibility is also a bonus.
The biggest benefits from both sides of this review is that there is competition and alternative products that consumers can use if they wish. At the end of the day thats the most beneficial feature any sofware product has.
As a sys admin for a large hosting provider aols anti spam policy has been great at reducing the amount of crap email being sent through thier servers. Over the years its dropped a massive amount so anything that AOL does to fight spam is a bonus to the world as they are such a large part of the "internet".
Unfortunatly there are thousands of ISPs that dont take SPAM as seriously as what AOL does. Realistically this is something that doesnt come as a suprise to many people that have been following the anti-spam developments closly. You cant blame AOL for having a service that is computer illiterate friendly despite your own experiences.
Everyone has the freedom to choose thier provider. Personally Im never going to use them.. but hey the option is there if you ever do want it. and if you do sign up you can live with less spam;)
This could be a good thing in some ways but in others it could be really bad. There are many "spam" services that people subsribe to that could be screwed over in situations like this. I know of a person that runs a subscription based mass email service. Hes constantly being called a spammer by the people that subscribe to his emails. Even though often he can proove that they have subscribed to the lists. (eg subscribe then a confirmation email then a response that then they go onto a grey list for a few months after no complaints they are in the white list as a valid user) hes fanatical about how careful he is with his list and his mails all abide by the CAN SPAM stuff.
This is very true. Personally I am a very very environmentally friendly person. Using as little of anything as possible to make my effort at making the world a better place.
Its also an unfortunate thing that poor(er) people will more likely drive a car that is out of tune and therore would often increase the levels of polution. Poor people often cant affort fresh(er) food so they need to use packaged stuff so the cycle continues.
Regardless of the polution education will still make a difference in the long. even if the person is at a disadvantage then any education is better than no education.
Another movie that has been shot off shore from the US. It appears as though many of the biggest movies in recent years have been shot off shore from the US. I talked about this with a person I know well and he was telling me about the spiraling costs of movies in the US. Is this going to be a similar begining to the IT industry moving many of thier technical jobs o/s
The biggest issue here is that when there is large divide between rich and poor there will be a natural increase in voilence. This can be seen anywhere in the world. Even in good old usa.
Often its the case that people who are poor do not get the same education as people that are slightly better off. This is a fairly general statement but the reality
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The issue in this conversation is waste products. When it comes to the production and use of solar power it maybe inefficient but if every house in every city had thier roof (which is wasted space in many places) covered with solar power the issue of space wouldnt be as difficult. Couple that with a large stash of batteries (yes polution from them too) and it would be ok with excess energy going back to the grid for others to use.
Hydro power doesnt always mean river ecosystems there are successful hydro generators using tidal currents although not as efficient at this stage.
Wind generators are not pretty.. but they work. and bird issues are not as bad as people like to claim. Reports from the wind fields in germany have said the problem was only an initial issue while the birds learnt about them.
At this stage in our evolution it comes down to us reducing our energy usage. Recycling, increasing the trees in the world rather than chopping them down. Recycle Reduce Reuse.
Sun doesnt need to have its kernel recompiled all the time because it doesnt have as diverse a hardware support as linux does. YES linux could be built with support for just about anything and everything but then it would be called lin-bloatware. Solaris in my experience has performed better than linux for longer periods of time under higher load. I have seen this time and time again (in 2.2 and 2.4 kernel series). We are still running 8 Solaris servers on intel hardware and 8 linux 2.6 based systems on the same hardware. BOTH are configured identically as far as apache and used services are concerned. Generall the Solaris 9 systems are more reliable (even on x86) than the same linux boxes on 2.4. Yet to be determined for 2.6 although 2.6 does appear to outperform the solaris system at this stage (uptime yet to be determined).
So realistically solaris is still king between linux and solaris. However FreeBSD is still more of a realistic competitor to solaris.. Where is the press on that?
But in the end any *nix flavor is better than none. Long live solaris and linux both have thier benefits and both have drawbacks. Realistically there is NO PERFECT OS!!. (and as long as humans make OS's there never will be).
Realistically the issue here is waste management. BUT its not really. Why cant we start to invest in more renewable resource based energy like solar, wind, hydro, the list goes on. That way we dont have to come up with solutions to dispose of deadly nuclear / atomic waste. I know that sounds tree huggish but at the same time its the reality of it. We are causing so many other environmental issues because we rely too heavily on fossil/nuclear power.
To really lure people away from office Staroffice/OpenOffice really needs to have a better office document standard support. I have been having issues with trying to open excell spreadsheets that are password protected. I then have to ask the person to mail me them with the password removed. Thats the penalty for using FreeBSD/Linux and OpenSource office packages. However Im in love with them after using it and cant go back to windows and office.
Its the small bugs that make a big difference to the end user. Especially when opposite products own such a large market share.
Its rather amusing to think about it. In the past when alot of people where poorer and the quality of life was lower we would DIY everything from our house to our garden, car and bicycle. Now we are lazy we sit in side and DIY only our computers in some cases. Lets hope that this can be a further trend to people doing things for themselves and innovation will surely be the real benefit from this. Not only will innovation be the key but also self satisfaction and a feeling of acomplishment that so many people lack in todays society.
In the past the access to information on how to go about doing this was much more difficult and not all libaries or regeons had that information availible. Since the birth of the internet and it becoming amazingly popular the information has become much more accessible. That is also one the major reasons why there has been a fairly large explosion in the amount of "hackers" out there doing cool things with hardware/software and thier self esteem.
Does this mean I can now wear my oakleys listening to music while I go for a run, get all sweaty and cause the stupid thing to stuff up!..
;0
ohhh sorry most people dont excerise
I often wonder why people still use hotmail.. some things just dont make logical sense.
Yeah creates jobs in india.. how many other quality programmers / developers have been laid off in favor of quantity over quality in india or other developing countries.
IT just goes to show that if there is a quality reliable alternative to internet explorer the people will come.
BUT to be honest with you I would have thought that the download counter would have been even higher than that.
This whole saga comes down to SCO being a pawn in a much bigger game played by the big boys. Realistically everyone looses in many cases like this. Because it comes down to a trust issue.
HELLO!! the internet isnt all american. a bounty will work in the US. But will it with in the czech republic. What about spammers in thailand, china and anywhere else. These bounties wont work as a solution long term.
The best standards are ones that are "standard" this means that they are interoperable. There is no point in calling it a standard unless it really is Standard.
However at the same time having open standards can also have a bad side. Being open means that joe cracker could in his many lonely nights without a girlfriend sit down and work out holes in the picture and possibly exploit them. Then the standard would have to change.. This is an example of the DVD standards...
Taking that standart to a programatic level often has issues with incompatibility as well. With certain providers always making thier own Tweaks to standards (in example ipsec).
SPAM is bulk email that you never subscribed to (in its most simple terms). THERE ARE LEGIT mass emails that are not spam. For example security alerts, Product updates from large commercial companies like sony etc. If you subscribe 2years ago and dont want the emails unsubscribe rather than mark it as spam.
People by nature are lazy and dont care about others in this day and age. And this is just another exampl e of this exact issue.
The real benefits of opensource is a fast product delivery cycle if the people are motivated. That doesnt always mean that the security is a high priority. BUT there are open source projects that have security as a major concernt.
djbdns/qmail/the list goes on and on where the coders have a real insight into security and good code. In general the larger the project the more easily it is to overlook a security issue. Its always going to be that way and often its not intentional. Imagine having to remember 500,000 lines of code for all possible issues. Plus if you do audit your code there isnt always a garrnetee that your eyes will pick it up.
Flexibility and fast release times make opensource a very viable option. And most exploits are not remotely exploitable to servers (unlike many of Microsofts issues as one example)...
I use opensource for the majority of my personal work but I still believe that windows/microsoft is benefitcial to the industry as a whole. The exchange/sql/windows/iis solution is pretty robust and works very well if its configured well in a corporate environment. Put that onto the internet and its a different story.
Ive been on both sides of the issue as well. We changed the names and IPs of our servers. It was the only fast way around it at that time.
Its not always AOL as a company or as sys admins as its also the users hitting the "this is spam" button... even when its clearly not.
In the end no single solution will work unless the vast majority of servers implement and maintain the solution. There is no use if only AOL or MSN implement a solution for spam. they "may" be 40million users or so but i know personally I dont email anyone @aol.com or @hotmail.com because im a geek and I have geek friends with thier own servers. There needs to be a mass adoption of a good standard to make any difference to the spam problem.
Over time there has been a serious increase in the amount of liability an ISP can take for thier user base. This works both ways unfortunatly being an ISP is alreaddy a full time job for most companies with thier support staff over worked and thier system administrators working overtime to fullfill often unreasonable expectations of themselves.
So adding additional work to ISPs will / could often be the straw that broke the camels back. But at the same time I believe the best way to get ISPs working FOR everyone else. Is if they are being the source of an abnormally high percentage of spam then thier IPS or something need to be threatened. In a world where the most part of IPv4 space is taken this would be more than catastrophic. and having IP space isnt a right its a priviliedge.
But having said that its very very difficult for ISPs to fully lock down thier services. We implemented a system where outbound port 25 was blocked to all clients. And our internal SMTP servers where rate limited on a per IP basis for clients. this killed spam for the most part. Then customers would find open proxies etc so the problem then went up again. Its hard to really combat and its a full time job in itself fighting spam from users of your own ISP. Thats even with disconnecting customers etc for spamming. (they often just sign up with a different false name and pay cash or similar).
Its good in theory difficult and costly in practise.
Novel is in a great place now not to break microsofts monopoly or to become number one but to give the industry a reliable set of software products that run on more than one operating system. The days of Windows only or Mac only are numbered if all goes well. And that gives consumers a much great er choice in the end and even if they choose to always go with one vendor or not it doesnt matter the choices are there. If the choices are there peple will choose.. and the world will keep spinning and thats what makes the world a great place.. options.. and flexibility is also a bonus.
The biggest benefits from both sides of this review is that there is competition and alternative products that consumers can use if they wish. At the end of the day thats the most beneficial feature any sofware product has.
As a sys admin for a large hosting provider aols anti spam policy has been great at reducing the amount of crap email being sent through thier servers. Over the years its dropped a massive amount so anything that AOL does to fight spam is a bonus to the world as they are such a large part of the "internet".
;)
Unfortunatly there are thousands of ISPs that dont take SPAM as seriously as what AOL does. Realistically this is something that doesnt come as a suprise to many people that have been following the anti-spam developments closly. You cant blame AOL for having a service that is computer illiterate friendly despite your own experiences.
Everyone has the freedom to choose thier provider. Personally Im never going to use them.. but hey the option is there if you ever do want it. and if you do sign up you can live with less spam
This could be a good thing in some ways but in others it could be really bad. There are many "spam" services that people subsribe to that could be screwed over in situations like this. I know of a person that runs a subscription based mass email service. Hes constantly being called a spammer by the people that subscribe to his emails. Even though often he can proove that they have subscribed to the lists. (eg subscribe then a confirmation email then a response that then they go onto a grey list for a few months after no complaints they are in the white list as a valid user) hes fanatical about how careful he is with his list and his mails all abide by the CAN SPAM stuff.
This is very true. Personally I am a very very environmentally friendly person. Using as little of anything as possible to make my effort at making the world a better place.
Its also an unfortunate thing that poor(er) people will more likely drive a car that is out of tune and therore would often increase the levels of polution. Poor people often cant affort fresh(er) food so they need to use packaged stuff so the cycle continues.
Regardless of the polution education will still make a difference in the long. even if the person is at a disadvantage then any education is better than no education.
Another movie that has been shot off shore from the US. It appears as though many of the biggest movies in recent years have been shot off shore from the US. I talked about this with a person I know well and he was telling me about the spiraling costs of movies in the US. Is this going to be a similar begining to the IT industry moving many of thier technical jobs o/s
The biggest issue here is that when there is large divide between rich and poor there will be a natural increase in voilence. This can be seen anywhere in the world. Even in good old usa.
Often its the case that people who are poor do not get the same education as people that are slightly better off. This is a fairly general statement but the reality